Posted
by
CmdrTaco
on Monday February 15, 1999 @03:12AM
from the we're-very-very-sorry dept.

drwiii was the first
to submit it and I guess I have to post it. Hemos and I have
our pictures in
the March issue of Wired (p45). We look like dorks, but when they
took that picture it was like 5 degrees out and had something like
a 25 degree wind chill. This is for the March issue they say as
they order us to remove our coats and risk frostbyte so that
we look timely. Eek.
I guess this means I should buy this issue.
Update: 02/15 10:34 by CT: I'm the ugly on. The ugly one on the right.
The metal thing is a lighthouse.

Gotta agree with you there.. I've lived everywhere, but I've lived in Fairbanks for the past 4 years....its gotten to like 60-70 below here....you do NOT want to go outside *grin* Although it's quite amusing to throw some hot water out your front door....its all frozen before it hits the ground....=)

For the amount of satisfaction we all get from your site (even the 'angry' posters - perhaps especially), congratulations.

I have no doubt, in all seriousness, that Slashdot, and the notorious "/. effect" will be prominent features of the socio-technological landscape for many years, if not generations, to come. (until, that is, the world is razed by y2k-enraged appliances)

Your appearance in Wired is a fruit (the first of many, i'm sure) of nothing more or less than your own sincere efforts and dogged persuit of your own dreams. If I could leave a mark 1/100th as bold...

Only those damn Californians would ask you Michigan types to take your coats off outside in the winter. I mean, winter in Michigan is *hard*. It *builds character*. It means *lots of time indoors drinking beer*. Or so my friends from Detroit, Kzoo and Lansing tell me:)

The whispered-about Wired Effect doesn't apply in this case though, because you didn't get the cover. (It works like the Sports Illustrated Cover Effect, except faster -- remember how much faster a Web year is).

Oh I see, you don't believe me about the Wired Effect. Oh yeah? You remember that cover about "Push"?

I'm sure even geeks can pick up Wired on the rare occasion when it covers something relevant. Like, say, new short fiction from Neal "Snow Crash" Stephenson, or last month's article about Matt Groenig's "Futurama". Besides, I'm sure there's less of a stigma attached to being in Wired than buying it.

Obviously not. The colonists had planned to use the lighthouse as a waystation; the faceless rebels shot this picture to expose their plot! Of course, I'm sure you all already know that CmdrTaco is a failed alien-human hybrid experiment.

what do you mean by "We look like dorks, but when they took that picture it was like 5 degrees out and had something like a 25 degree wind chill. This is for the March issue they say as they order us to remove our coats and risk frostbyte so that we look timely"?

There is no excuse for being a dork, and there's not a single thing wrong with it either...